Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

despoiler

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: de-spoil-er
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.

Example Sentences

"A wild and unreasoning craving for vengeance took possession of Ferris’s soul. Passing by the real despoiler of Angela’s peace, it clamoured like an evil spirit against the man from whom he had received benefits, which his distorted imagination construed into insults."
"[…] he, who had been the untamable despoiler of their daughters, and thief of their women, their walking prince of darkness!"
"1985, Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History, New York: Norton, 1987, Chapter 1, Other despoilers of our natural heritage killed bison with even greater abandon, removed the tongue only (considered a great delicacy in some quarters), and left the rest of the carcass to rot."

Etymology

From Middle English dispoyler, dispoylere, equivalent to despoil + -er.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: dispoyler,dispoylere
Suffix: despoil

Inflected Forms

despoilers (plural)

Synonyms

plunderer pillager looter spoiler raider freebooter

Questions

What does despoiler mean?: One who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.
Where does despoiler come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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